What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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